Tuition classes that publish their pass rates, so that parents can compare

A first step

Publish your own tuition class's pass rate from last year, with the students' consent and the number who sat, on a single printed sheet. Then offer to do the same for three other tuition teachers, and ask parents at the gate whether a published pass rate would change where they send their child. Teachers who ask you to verify their results are the proof.

Who pays first

A tuition teacher with good results who will pay to have them verified and published, because parents choose on reputation.

What leaves today

Parents choose tuition by rumour, so the money they spend rewards reputation rather than results, and good teachers cannot prove it.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. OneThe Letter That Says Yes and Means No
  177,588 qualified, 45,000 placed

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